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Rustic handmade wedding in Colorado: Jess + TJ

Let’s pretend there’s a drumroll happening right about now and a guy with a megaphone announcing: “And, now for the moment you’ve all been waiting for…Jess + TJ’s wedding!”. It’s been a magical couple of days that have now led us to their incredible ceremony + reception. As you’d imagine after looking at their hoedown and rehearsal dinner, the main event of their weekend-long festivities was nothing less than breathtaking. We’re so excited to share this bundle of inspiration with y’all!

Sorry, we’re going to have to bite our tongue on sharing too many words about Jess’s to-die-for dress because it honestly needs its own dedicated post. We’re not lying. Come back tomorrow to hear how creating her own dress and working with Suzanne at Atelier des Modiste was one of Jess’s favorite parts about the whole wedding planning process!

The groomsmen got to pick out what they wanted to wear the day of, while TJ and I picked out some super fun vintage bow ties on Etsy from xoelle. I thought learning to tie their first bow tie with the instructions was pretty fun (especially for his younger brothers).

Far and away my favorite DIY of the entire wedding was our quilt. As a part of our response card we asked for guests to send a piece of fabric. To my surprise nearly everyone did (people sent everything from shirts, to baby blankets, to jeans and just random fabric). I pieced together the quilt and then a local quilter did the heart embroidery on top and finished it off.

It rained for about 1/2 of the ceremony, and at the very end when we were exchanging rings and saying I do, the sun popped out and hooked us up with a double rainbow- which was amazing!

This “Room 4 Dessert” sign was super simple to make. I cut the burlap, spray painted the letters on via stencil, added some glitter, and sewed a string up top to hang.

Around the lounge area we made a pseudo wall to bring the space in (that barn was HUGE) by hanging 3 old doors that I had bought for a few bucks at the resource yard and distressed. I then broke the glass/screen part of the top, tied some string across and clothes-pinned photos of friends and family for guests to take a look at while they were grabbing a drink.

Recognize that colorful quilt? That’s the same quilt they used during their ceremony! We love how they used that as their photobooth backdrop!

Jess + TJ, you knocked it out of the park and across the lake! Congratulations on your fantabulous wedding! If you can believe it, there’s still a tad more to share. Come back tomorrow for a detailed account (plus real-life sketches) on Jess’s stunning dress!

Amazing. One of my favorite wedding posts to date! So many wonderful details!

nora on Aug 3, 2011

as beautiful as this wedding looks, I guess it cost a beautiful pile of money.
In our world there are so many problems and poor people that I think one should not dishonour these by throwing a wedding that could provide families with a lifetime salary!

Thank you Nora for your comment. Jess did a lot of DIY projects with family and friends to offset the cost. This was a big weekend filled with lots of love. We appreciate everything she and her family put into this event to make it so memorable.

Loved your post on Rustic Wedding. Our ranch host weddings in a horse arena that we used to host horse shows and ropings. We have turned our entire ranch into a Wedding Ranch. We are having a great time. Looking forward in reading future post. If you have a few minutes we also have a blog called venuesandbrides.com Smiles, Roxie

All I can say is WOW - this wedding is above and beyond amazing, one of my favorites in a long time. As someone who also had 3 days of wedding festivities, I know how much work goes into planning it. This looks like it was an immense amount of work, but everything is so thoughtful, so simple, so elegant and inviting. Can't wait to see more tomorrow.

WOWWWWWWW!! One of my all time favourite weddings, ever! Her dress is completely amazing - can't wait to see the post on that! And how lucky where they with the timing of that rainbow?! Everything about this wedding is totally swoon worthy!

Hi Everyone,
Thanks so much for all of the totally great comments all week long! We were so lucky to work with such amazing folks who helped us make this day total perfection! Hope everyone gets inspired to add lots of fun DIY elements to their wedding!!!
xo
Jess (the bride :)

What if you can’t make it? Well, we have a set up so that you can donate to the Pinnacle Mountain State Park trail fund.cheap north face. Make the check out to Pinnacle Mountain State Park and make sure you note in the memo line that it is for the mountain bike trails. This will help us buy materials to build bridges, signs and trail head bulletin boards. See the park staff at the visitor center for details.

Gorgeous photographs, I love the one where the bride is with her horse

Sara Faircloth on Aug 19, 2011

Hi there, your wedding was STUNNING!
Wondering where you had the sign made that has your wedding date and the quote , "Loved You Yesterday, Love You Today, Always Have, Always Will". I ADORE it and would love to have that at my wedding this November. Thank you!

OMG, this is STUNNING! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the hanging watering cans filled with flowers (above the DJ). So creative! Love all the personal details! Just beautiful!

Cheryl on May 17, 2012

I just want to know how the quilt fit into the ceremony. Can you tell me please?

Brittney on Jun 3, 2012

Where was this wedding at? I love the location and I am having a hard time finding what I like and I love this one.

Victoria on Aug 2, 2012

Everything is so beautiful! I hate to be a dress stealer…but who made this gorgeous number?!

Krista on Nov 14, 2012

I LOVE everything about this wedding! I was wondering how the bride and groom went about collecting the fabric from their guests for the quilt. How did they reimburse the guests for their shipping and and handling fees?